Michael Ondaatje Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its paw. This, he would say, as if coming away from a brandy snifter, is the greatest smell in the world! A bouquet! Great rumours of travel! She would pretend disgust, but the dog's paw was a wonder: the smell of it never suggested dirt. It's a cathedral! her father had said, so-and-so's garden, that field of grasses, a walk through cyclamen--a concentration of hints of all the paths the animal had taken during the day.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Dog, Father, Taken

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.8, Vintage

• In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Father, Glasses, Piano

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.67, A&C Black

• Fathers die.You keep on loving them in any way you can.You can't hide him away in your heart.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Father, Heart, Way

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.265, Vintage

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